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SLUG-90 Announcement - formatted
SLUG-90
Sixth Annual International Symbolics Lisp Users Group Conference
June 18 - 22, 1990
Hosted by
The Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Preliminary program and pre-registration form
Sixth Annual International Symbolics Lisp Users Group Conference
Developing and Delivering Applications
Last year, over 150 users met in Boston with Symbolics management
and developers to share experiences and hear about Symbolics'
technology, product and business plans. This year, SLUG-90 will
include tutorials by Symbolics' Educational Services, technical
sessions, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, formal presentations by
Symbolics developers, presentations by Symbolics management, and
many opportunities for informal discussions with representatives of
all facets of Symbolics management.
Symbolics has recently announced details "Focus on Five", its new
product and corporate strategy to maintain price performance
leadership, support application portability, and broaden its markets.
Top Symbolics management, including Jay Wurts (President and CEO),
Ken Tarpey, Ken Sinclair, and Johanna Rothman will be on hand to
discuss the strategy and its implications. Prominent Symbolics
developers, such as David Moon, Kent Pitman, and Scott McKay will
discuss the forthcoming release of Genera 8.0 and the future of
Genera, including CLOS and CLIM.
The theme of this year's conference is "Developing and Delivering
Applications" - using the tools provided by Genera to build
application software while addressing the following constraints:
INTERFACES
What are the right tools to use to ensure that the programmer
and user interfaces are optimal?
MAINTENANCE and PERFORMANCE
What effects will using a particular tool have on
maintainability, extensibility, and performance tuning?
PORTABILITY
How can we make the application available to the user, and
what tools exist to ensure this can be accomplished?
EXTENSIONS
How can we take advantage of Symbolics' extensions to Genera
(for example, Statice, Joshua, and Concordia), given the above
constraints?
This year, the focus is on tools we can use to (1) develop better
systems faster than we could before, and (2) deliver these
applications in a variety of environments. Symbolics has given us
some solutions in both of these areas, such as CLOE and
Ivory-embeds: what other paths have been used successfully and at
what cost? In particular, we'll try to address the question of how we
can develop an application in Genera for delivery in different
environments, while sacrificing as few of Genera's developmental
advantages (and layered products) as possible.
Please join us in what promises to be a lively and informative week
at Stanford!
Proposed tutorials include:
o An Introduction to CLOS for Flavors programmers
Sixth Annual International Symbolics Lisp Users Group Conference
o CLIM: Theory and Practice
o Programming for portability using Genera, CLOS, and CLIM
Proposed conference sessions include:
o Case Studies of Using Concordia
o Databases: Integrating and Using from Lisp/Genera
o Debugging Techniques of Sophisticated Users
o Delivering Applications: Tips from Consultants
o Future of Genera
o Introducing the XL1200
o Lisp Myths and Misconceptions
o Performance: Pitfalls and Tuning
o Site Maintenance Strategies, Tools, and Configurations
o State of Lisp
o State of Software Support
o State of Symbolics and the Focus-on-Five Corporate Strategy
o Symbolics Delivery Solutions
o Unix-Genera communications and integration (including RPC and X)
o Users' View of Genera: Likes, Needs, and Our View of the Future
o Using CLOE: Comments, Advise, and Experiences
o Using Genera to Develop Portable Applications: Successes and
Advise
o ZMACS: extensions, modifications, and how to do it
Proposed Birds-of-a-Feather sessions include:
o Consultants SIG
o Justifying Buying/Using Lispms
o New and Old DIALNET Users
o Object-Oriented Design
o Policies and Approaches to Hardware and Software Maintenance
o Site Manager's SIG
o Tools for the Security Conscious
A machine room will be available throughout the conference. Machines
can be used for demonstrations, swapping software, hacking, etc.
Dates
CLOS Tutorial Monday, June 18, 8am-12pm.
CLIM Tutorial Monday, June 18, 1pm-5pm.
Portability Tutorial Tuesday, June 19, 8am-5pm.
Symbolics sponsored reception Tuesday, June 19, 5:30pm.
Conference begins Wednesday, June 20, 9am.
SLUG sponsored reception Thursday, June 21, 7:30pm.
Conference ends Friday, June 22, 3:30pm.
Location
The 1990 Conference will take place at Stanford University in the
midst of its Centennial Celebration. Located on the San Francisco
Peninsula, Stanford offers outstanding facilities, reliably excellent
weather, and easy access to San Francisco (30 miles to the north),
the coast (10 miles west), with redwoods, wine country, Santa Cruz,
Monterey, and Carmel not much farther away.
Registration fees
Tutorial 1-day 3-day
(half/full day) conference
conference
Advance registration 95/190 n/a 120
Late registration 115/230 75 150
Students 75/150 20 55
Conference organizers
Chairman
Richard Billington
Georgia Tech/School of ICS
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
404/894-3227 FAX: 404/853-9378
Email: SLUG90@ai.sri.com
Registration
Shelanski Associates
701 Market St., Suite 2000
Philadelphia, PA 19106
215/922-5757 FAX: 215/625-9037
Additional information on lodging, parking, room locations, etc. will
be included with registration materials. Contact Shelanski Associates
regarding registration. Contact Richard Billington with comments and
suggestions on conference agenda.
Sixth Annual International Symbolics Lisp Users Group Conference
Pre-registration Form
Send no money now. Use this form to request final registration
materials.
Name:________________________________________________
Company:_____________________________________________
Address:______________________________________________
City:_________________________________________________ State:__________
Country:___________________________________________ Zipcode:___________
Phone:______________________________ FAX:_____________________________
Email:________________________________________________
___ I'm interested in dormitory housing (less than $25/single/night)
There are several inexpensive hotels near campus.
I'm interested in attending the following tutorials:
___ An Introduction to CLOS for Flavors programmers (1/2 day)
___ CLIM: Theory and Practice (1/2 day)
___ Programming for Portability (full day)
Briefly, what do you expect to get out of the tutorials you're
interested in:
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
___ I'm interested in attending the conference sessions.
___ Sessions I'd like to see & what I'd like to get out of them
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
___ I would like to make a technical presentation on:
Development tools or techniques
____________________________________________________
A successfully delivered application
____________________________________________________
Other technical issue
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